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Lucy Prebble

January 2024

  • Hans Kesting, centre, as Richard III in Kings of War at the Barbican, London, in 2016.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Kings of War, David Tennant’s Hamlet and more

    If you can’t get tickets to his Macbeth, Tennant’s acclaimed prince of Denmark is online, along with a spectacular take on three Shakespeare plays by Ivo van Hove

August 2023

  • Taylor Russell as Connie in The Effect.

    The week in theatre: The Effect; Makeshifts and Realities – reviews

  • Paapa Essiedu (Tristan) and Taylor Russell (Connie) in The Effect at the National Theatre.

    The Effect review – Lucy Prebble’s intense and intoxicating encounter

July 2023

  • Lucy Prebble

    ‘Succession was like coming home’: Lucy Prebble on life inside TV’s greatest show

    The Enron playwright felt her career was floundering when the call came from Jesse Armstrong’s acclaimed series and changed everything. She talks about why writing is a lonely calling, and the problem with ‘grandparent-pleasing’ theatre

December 2022

  • The anti-Christmas special our misogynistic culture deserves! … Billie Piper in I Hate Suzie Too.

    TV review
    I Hate Suzie Too review – Amy Winehouse and Caroline Flack haunt this astounding show

    It may be the televisual equivalent of a panic attack – but TV doesn’t get any weirder, sadder or more fearlessly magnificent

October 2021

  • Self Esteem, AKA Rebecca Lucy Taylor (left), and Succession writer Lucy Prebble

    Edgar Wright edits Observer New Review
    ‘I’m addicted a bit to saying what I think’: Self Esteem and Lucy Prebble in conversation

    The musician and screenwriter became friends four years ago. They discuss finding your voice as a female artist and the appeal of Twitter

May 2021

  • Billie Piper in December 2020

    Billie Piper: From vulnerable teen pop star to director of an ‘anti-romcom’

    The characters she plays do not match her own life, the actress insists, but it’s hard not to see parallels with her own journey

December 2020

  • Panic attack … celebrity anxiety in I Hate Suzie.

    Stress, chess and mounting dread: how 2020 was the year of anxie-TV

    As the pandemic struck and a nation retreated to its living rooms, it seemed the perfect time for light and comforting shows to boom. The reality was anything but
  • I Hate Suzie

    2020 in TV
    The 50 best TV shows of 2020, No 2: I Hate Suzie

    Billie Piper was on searing form as a B-list celeb whose life is unravelling in this unflinchingly honest portrait of womanhood
  • Michaela Coel in I May Destroy You.

    2020 in TV
    The 50 best TV shows of 2020: 50-1

    Michaela Coel’s smart, subversive and taboo-breaking drama gave us absolutely unbeatable television – plus more of the year’s best

August 2020

  • Wit by the bucketload ... Billie Piper as Suzie

    TV review
    I Hate Suzie review – Billie Piper is nude, lewd and joyously off the rails

  • Billie Piper and Lucy Prebble

    I May Destroy You and Fleabag have given TV writers more power, says Lucy Prebble

May 2020

  • Clockwise from top left: Rachel De-lahay, Jack Thorne, Vinay Patel and Lucy Prebble

    'You can dream bigger': what writers prefer about stage to screen

    Lucy Prebble, Vinay Patel, Rachel De-lahay and Jack Thorne have all had major success on TV. But what do they particularly love about writing for theatre?

March 2020

  • Matthew Macfadyen photographed by Pal Hansen for the Observer.

    Matthew Macfadyen: 'We are all living by the seat of our pants'

    The British actor on the triumph of HBO’s Succession - and being cast as the ‘coughing major’ in ITV’s Quiz

February 2020

  • A ‘kaleidoscopic variety of tone’ … playwright Lucy Prebble.

    Lucy Prebble wins inaugural Michael Billington award for best new play

    Prebble’s play A Very Expensive Poison won the prize, named after the Guardian’s former chief theatre critic, at the Critics’ Circle awards

January 2020

  • Jessica Rhodes and John Hollingworth in Lucy Prebble’s The Sugar Syndrome.

    The Sugar Syndrome review – Lucy Prebble's dark encounters still connect

  • Paul Abbott and Yero Timi-Bui; Jack Thorne and Sharma Walfall; Lucy Prebble and Temi Wilkey; Levi David Addai and Nicôle Lecky.

    ‘She’s the real deal’: top TV writers on mentoring the stars of the future

December 2019

  • Danielle Vitalis and Tia Bannon in seven methods of killing kylie jenner; James McAvoy’s rapping Cyrano de Bergerac; Lenny Henry and Martina Laird in King Hedley II; and Maggie Smith in A German Life.

    Observer critics' review of 2019
    Susannah Clapp’s best theatre of 2019

    There was fearless new work, revelatory sound design and a seismic shift in the tussle between Chekhov and Ibsen

October 2019

  • The Boulevard Theatre auditorium, Soho, London.

    Boulevard theatre, London's new Soho venue, announces first shows

    State-of-the-art West End theatre opens its doors with a season including plays by Cormac McCarthy and Lucy Prebble

September 2019

  • Jerusalem, Mr Burns and Barbershop Chronicles

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The 50 best theatre shows of the 21st century

    A hip-hop history lesson, a dizzy Dahl musical and a continent-hopping barbershop … we pick the finest new works of theatre since 2000
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